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Description

Emergency and Critical Care: Assessment and Treatment of the Critically Ill Patient: Part Two is designed to build on the knowledge base of experienced technicians. This 6-week advanced level course covers cardiac and hematological emergencies. It includes challenging assignments that will require the student to utilize professional experience and critical thinking skills, along with new concepts and knowledge acquired through the course materials. Participants are not required to work in practice to complete this course.

Note: Each of the courses in the Emergency and Critical Care: Assessment and Treatment of the Critically Ill Patient series is free-standing and participants may take the courses in any order. All 4 courses in the series utilize the same textbook.

This course was formally titled Advanced Principles of Emergency Patient Care, Part Two.

Objectives

On completion of this course the learner will be able to:

1. Differentiate between intra-cardiac and extra-cardiac diseases
2. Recognize clinical signs of shock
3. Evaluate and interpret an electrocardiogram
4. Identify pericardial effusion and prepare the patient for a pericardiocentesis
5. State the different causes of heart failure
6. Administer CPR
7. Describe normal hemostasis and explain the tools available to evaluate hemostasis
8. Administer care for a patient that has had open chest surgery
9. Discuss the uses of cardiac and hematologic medications
10. Identify different coagulopathies and the clinical signs associated with each

A native of Colorado, Brandy graduated from Colorado State University in the spring of 2003 with a BS in Equine Sciences. While attending CSU, she worked as a nurse's assistant in the Critical Care Unit at the Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital. Here, she learned just how far you can go with a career as a veterinary technician. She enrolled in Front Range Community College in Loveland, CO, graduating in 2005. Brandy then moved to Parker, CO where she currently works as a senior emergency and critical care technician. She had the honor of becoming a member of the Academy of Veterinary Emergency & Critical Care Technicians in 2008.

Brandy has a passion for writing and has written several papers for Today's Veterinary Practice, Veterinary Nursing Journal, Today's Veterinary Technician, and Veterinary Technician. She is also a contributor in the 5th edition of Review Questions and Answers for Veterinary Technicians. In addition she is the current chair of the AVECCT Credentials Committee.

Brandy currently lives with two birds, two cats, and two dogs.

Current Accreditations

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